Professional Development
Library Technical Assistants with Karen Urgitis – Wequonnoc School Library

March 25, 2010



Welcome and Overview of the Day

Web Site Status Check – Google Analytics – What does the data indicate?

Parking Lot (Discussion) –
What can be done that you don’t know about: prioritizing
What you know can be done but don’t know how to do: acquiring
What you still need to be successful: planning

Web Site Scavenger Hunt – How does our site/s compare to those of other schools/districts?

Image Optimization Overview
What does image optimization mean?
What are good sources of images?
How do we remain copyright compliant?
Why is this important for web page construction?

Lunch Break – on your own – 1 hour

Image Optimization Activity
Group activity – optimizing an image in MS Paint
Demonstration – determining image attributes and ways to enhance images
Self-paced activity – working with digital images

Parking Lot (Discussion) –
How does image optimization help create better web pages?
What optimization tasks are most important?
How does a good starting photograph facilitate all tasks in optimization?

Sharing Images – Photo Enhancing Software – (Photoshop and Photoshop Elements)

Next Steps

Closure – 3:30 pm